Tag: welcomes
Clean Arctic Alliance Welcomes Support for New Arctic Emission Control Areas for Shipping
As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (IMO, MEPC 81) closed today, the Clean Arctic Alliance today welcomed the support for two new areas in the Arctic to be protected from polluting air emissions from shipping. The two Emission Control Areas (ECAs) proposed by Canada and Norway and approved by…
ICS Welcomes the Conclusion of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC81) Meeting
We welcome the progress made during these intensive negotiations to achieve net zero emissions from shipping, and the support received from around 60 Member States for a flat rate contribution system per tonne of GHG. The purpose of the proposed system, put forward by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), is to reduce the cost…
Groke Technologies Welcomes Energy Saving And Safety Performance Of First Windwings Ship
Groke Technologies has welcomed the energy saving performance of the world’s first vessel fitted with BAR Technologies’ wind propulsion system WindWings®, which charterer Cargill said has achieved equivalent fuel savings of 3t per day. In a news release issued last week, Cargill Ocean Transportation, one of the world’s foremost freight-trading organisations, chartering around 650 vessels,…
The Green Award welcomes 8 New Japanese ports, Expanding its Asian Footprint
The Green Award Foundation is pleased to announce that 8 ports additionally managed by the Osaka Ports and Harbors Bureau have joined as new Incentive Providers, offering discounted port fees to Green Award certified vessels that call their ports. This expands The Green Award’s network to 47 ports incentivising safety and sustainability in shipping globally.Among…
90 percent in 2040: Danish Shipping welcomes ambitious EU climate target
Yesterday, the EU has presented the Union’s climate target for 2040: Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 90 percent by 2040 at the latest. The ambitious target is welcomed by Danish Shipping. It requires ambitious targets as well as ambitious and effective implementation if we are going to make real progress in the green…
Ship It Zero cautiously welcomes container shipping majors’ joint effort to end fossil fuel-powered ships, calls for more stringent plan to achieve 100% zero-emission shipping
The Ship It Zero coalition cautiously welcomes an announcement from five of the world’s largest shipping lines — MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Wallenius Wilhelmsen — made in Dubai at COP28 that calls for an end date for fossil fuel-only powered newbuilds, while also urging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to create the regulatory…
GAC Oman welcomes world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier
In a historic moment for Oman’s clean energy aspirations, the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, the Suiso Frontier, has made its inaugural visit to Oman. And it was GAC that acted as its agent for its maiden call to Muscat’s Sultan Qaboos Port. Net-zero goals For countries like Oman, which are dedicated to achieving Net…
Value Group welcomes Shell Ventures as investor to accelerate marine decarbonization
Sustainability pioneer, Value Group (Value Maritime and Value Carbon) is pleased to announce that Shell Ventures has joined Value Group’s investor base to accelerate and expand Value Group’s carbon capture utilisation and storage strategy. Value Maritime is the pioneering developer and installer of one of the first commercially viable hybrid CO2 capture and exhaust gas…
